Renting in Woking

Average Rent in Woking: £1,550/mo

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Median asking rent across 2,104 live Woking listings on 6 portals from £400/mo, broken down by property size below — plus how rents have moved, where they are highest and lowest, and what landed on the market this week.

Median asking rent

£1,550 /month

2,104 live listings · 6 portals

Median monthly rent in Woking by property size
Size	Median rent	Listings
Studio	£1,050/mo	79
1 bed	£1,250/mo	682
2 bed	£1,650/mo	584
3 bed	£2,100/mo	310
4+ bed	£3,500/mo	229
Room (house share)	£795/mo	220

Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated 12 September 2026. Weekly prices normalised to monthly.

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Renting in Woking

What it costs to rent in Woking

Woking currently has 2,104 rental properties listed across the portals we track, with a median rent of £1,550 a month. 91 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 32% are houses and the rest are flats.

Rents vary sharply by postcode. The most affordable outcode we track is GU4 at around £1,300/mo, while GU23 sits nearer £5,750/mo. For a wider view of where the UK’s cheapest rents are, see our guide to the cheapest cities to rent in the UK.

Dwellio watches Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders for Woking around the clock — so a new listing reaches your inbox before most renters have refreshed the app. Here’s how our rental alerts work. Looking further afield? You can browse rentals in every UK city.

Rent by property size

Average rent in Woking by bedrooms

Median monthly asking rent for each property size, from 2,104 live listings across 6 property sites (September 2026).

Average studio rent in Woking

£1,050/mo

The median asking rent for a studio in Woking is £1,050 a month, 32% below the city-wide median of £1,550, based on 79 studios currently on the market.

Average rent for a 1-bed flat in Woking

£1,250/mo

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Woking is £1,250 a month, 19% below the city-wide median of £1,550, based on 682 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 2-bed flat or house in Woking

£1,650/mo

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Woking is £1,650 a month, 6% above the city-wide median of £1,550, based on 584 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 3-bed house in Woking

£2,100/mo

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Woking is £2,100 a month, 35% above the city-wide median of £1,550, based on 310 listings currently on the market.

Average rent for a 4-bed house in Woking

£3,500/mo

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Woking is £3,500 a month, 126% above the city-wide median of £1,550, based on 229 listings currently on the market.

Average room rent in Woking

£795/mo

The median asking rent for a room in a Woking house share is £795 a month, 49% below the city-wide median of £1,550, based on 220 rooms currently listed, mostly on SpareRoom and OpenRent.

Medians exclude prices that fail our junk-listing floor. Room rents are per room, not per property.

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Rent trend · ONS PIPR

How Woking rents have moved

Office for National Statistics Price Index of Private Rents — official monthly average rent across all tenures in Woking. Latest: £1,619/mo (Jul 26, -1.7% YoY).

Latest

£1,619

Jul 26

Annual

-1.7%

vs last year

5-yr ago

£1,315

Aug 21

Total change

+23%

since 2021

Source: Office for National Statistics · Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR). Updated monthly with a ~2-month lag. ONS uses Broad Rental Market Areas in Scotland — figures may aggregate beyond the city itself.

Affordability · ONS ASHE

What share of Woking pay goes on rent?

Renters in Woking spend an estimated 51% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).

Median rent

£1,619/mo

£19,428/yr

Median pay

£38,172/yr

gross, ASHE 2025

Rent burden

51%

Expensive — half of local median pay before tax.

0%30% threshold80%

Sources: Office for National Statistics — Price Index of Private Rents (latest month) and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings Table 8.7a (median annual gross pay, place of residence). The 30% line is the conventional rent-burden threshold above which housing costs are considered to crowd out other essentials.

Property types

What’s on offer in Woking

Flats & apartments

1028

58% of listings

Houses

491

28% of listings

Rooms

220

13% of listings

Bungalows

1% of listings

Property mix · houses

Houses to rent in Woking — what's on the market

Terraced houses make up 39% of the 510 houses currently advertised in Woking.

Terraced
39%199
Detached
24%122
Semi-detached
19%97
Other house
14%73
Bungalow
4%19

Rent by postcode

Where Woking rent is highest and lowest

Median monthly rent grouped by outcode across 1,645 live listings in 13 outcodes. Outcodes with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental.

Most expensive in Woking

1GU23£5,750/mo13 rentals
2GU3£2,600/mo7 rentals
3GU24£2,300/mo39 rentals

Cheapest in Woking

1GU4£1,300/mo7 rentals
2GU2£1,425/mo34 rentals
3KT16£1,475/mo11 rentals

Features · Woking

Garden, parking, and floor area in Woking

Live signal across 2,104 Woking rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.

Garden

85%

of 499 Woking listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.

Parking

92%

of 729 Woking listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.

Live from the portals

New rentals in Woking this week

91 homes came onto the Woking rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.

91 new this weekUpdated today

Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Woking. Click through to the source portal to enquire.

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Council tax · VOA 2024

Council tax bands across Woking

Most Woking homes sit in Band D. The weighted average works out close to Band D–E across 44,340 properties on the council-tax list.

Modal band

most common band

Mean band

4.32

≈ Band D–E

Stock

44k

44,340 properties

A
1%340
B
8%3,740
C
25%11,220
D
28%12,470
E
14%6,320
F
9%4,200
G
12%5,230
H
2%820

Source: HM Valuation Office Agency — Council Tax Stock of Properties (CTSOP1.0), extract dated 31 March 2024. Covers England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland use separate band schemes and aren't included.

Broadband · Ofcom Connected Nations

Broadband coverage across Woking

74% of Woking premises can already get full-fibre and 92% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.

Full fibre

74%

FTTP-ready premises

Gigabit

92%

≥1Gbit/s available

Superfast

99%

≥30Mbit/s available

Mean speed

475 Mbit/s

bucket-weighted estimate

Full fibre (FTTP)
74%
Gigabit-capable
92%
Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)
99%

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Woking), July 2025, covering 43,817 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.

Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC

EPC ratings for Woking homes

51% of Woking homes hold a current EPC in bands A–C — the bands that meet the proposed 2030 minimum energy-efficiency standard for rented stock.

Bands A–C

51%

good energy-efficiency stock

Bands D–G

49%

below the proposed 2030 floor

Certificates

39k

39,211 EPCs

A
0%184
B
13%5,078
C
37%14,611
D
37%14,506
E
10%4,032
F
2%677
G
0%123

Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Woking. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.

Schools · GIAS · DfE

State-funded schools near Woking

10 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Woking centroid. The five closest:

1
The Park School
Not applicable · Academy special sponsor led · GU22 7AT
0.36 mi
2
Maybury Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · GU21 5DW
0.45 mi
3
St Dunstan's Catholic Primary School, Woking
Primary · Voluntary aided school · GU22 7AX
0.51 mi
4
North West Surrey Short Stay School
Not applicable · Pupil referral unit · GU21 6NT
0.55 mi
5
The Horsell Village School
Primary · Academy converter · GU21 4QQ
0.63 mi

Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Woking centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.

Area safety

Safety in Woking

Higher Crime Area

Based on the latest police data (September 2026), Woking has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 94 of 94 postcode districts analysed, the median was 165 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Woking is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.

Crime overview

165 crimes per area (median)
94 of 94 postcode districts covered
Data: September 2026

Most reported

Anti-social behaviour
0% of incidents

Woking’s overall figures sit above the national median, but crime varies a lot by neighbourhood. Dwellio alerts include the area’s data so you can pick the right street.

Data from data.police.uk, updated monthly. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.

Area breakdown

Safety by suburb in Woking

Street-level crime counts from data.police.uk for July 2026, covering a ~1 mile radius around each suburb centre. Figures are normalised per 1,000 residents so you can compare neighbourhoods fairly.

Horsell has the lowest crime count of the top 5 suburbs in Woking.

Knaphill
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (79) · pop. ~16,000
9.3
per 1k
Byfleet
Higher crime
Most common: Violent crime (23) · pop. ~7,000
11
per 1k
Horsell
Safer area
Most common: Anti-social behaviour (13) · pop. ~10,000
3.8
per 1k
West Byfleet
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (34) · pop. ~10,000
8.5
per 1k
Goldsworth Park
Typical for city
Most common: Violent crime (43) · pop. ~14,000
8.3
per 1k

Suburbs shown are representative populated areas; figures reflect street-level incidents within ~1 mile of each centre. Data from data.police.uk. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.

Where we search

Woking listings by portal

We watch 6 property sites for rentals in Woking.

Rightmove

933

OnTheMarket

370

OpenRent

363

SpareRoom

220

PrimeLocation

171

Leaders

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Frequently asked

Renting in Woking — your questions answered

How much is rent in Woking?

The average (median) asking rent in Woking is £1,550 a month — a 1-bed is £1,250 and a 2-bed £1,650, based on 2,104 live listings across 6 property portals in Sept 2026.

What is the average studio rent in Woking?

The median asking rent for a studio in Woking is £1,050 a month, 32% below the city-wide median of £1,550, based on 79 studios currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 1-bed flat in Woking?

The median asking rent for a 1-bed home in Woking is £1,250 a month, 19% below the city-wide median of £1,550, based on 682 listings currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 2-bed flat or house in Woking?

The median asking rent for a 2-bed home in Woking is £1,650 a month, 6% above the city-wide median of £1,550, based on 584 listings currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 3-bed house in Woking?

The median asking rent for a 3-bed home in Woking is £2,100 a month, 35% above the city-wide median of £1,550, based on 310 listings currently on the market.

What is the average rent for a 4-bed house in Woking?

The median asking rent for a four-bedroom-plus home in Woking is £3,500 a month, 126% above the city-wide median of £1,550, based on 229 listings currently on the market.

What is the average room rent in Woking?

The median asking rent for a room in a Woking house share is £795 a month, 49% below the city-wide median of £1,550, based on 220 rooms currently listed, mostly on SpareRoom and OpenRent.

How many rental properties are available in Woking?

There are currently 2,104 rental properties available in Woking, with 91 new listings added in the last 7 days.

Is Woking safe for renters?

Woking has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 165 reported crimes per postcode area (September 2026). The most common category is Anti-social behaviour. Data from data.police.uk.

What is the most common crime in Woking?

The most commonly reported crime category in Woking is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for September 2026.

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